Wilhelm Gräb – författare

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development.Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African Initiated Christianity within the religion and development discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts. While the contributions in this book focus on the African continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions. Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars interested in religion and development as well as researchers within African studies, anthropology, development studies, political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology. It will also be a key resource for development policymakers and practitioners.The Open Access version of this book, available athttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367823825, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development.Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African Initiated Christianity within the religion and development discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts. While the contributions in this book focus on the African continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions. Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars interested in religion and development as well as researchers within African studies, anthropology, development studies, political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology. It will also be a key resource for development policymakers and practitioners.The Open Access version of this book, available athttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367823825, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early nineteenth-century Protestant theologian and philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). As the first major Christian thinker to theorize religion in a post-Enlightenment context and re-conceive the task of theology accordingly, Schleiermacher holds a seminal place in the histories of modern Christian thought and the modern academic study of religion alike. Whereas his “liberalism” and humanism have always made him a controversial figure among theological traditionalists, it is only recently that Schleiermacher’s understanding of religion has become the target of polemics from Religious Studies scholars keen to disassociate their discipline from its partial origins in liberal Protestantism. Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology documents an important meeting in the history of Schleiermacher studies at which leading scholars from Europe and North America gathered to probe the viability of key features of Schleiermacher’s theological and philosophical program in light of its contested place in the study of religion.

Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann is dedicated to scholarship in systematic theology and philosophy of religion. The series is open to all scholarly fields that address any aspect of systematic theology in a broad sense. This includes research on questions of dogmatics, ethics, history of theology in all epochs, philosophical approaches to theology and religion as well as projects that combine biblical studies with theological issues. The name of the series recalls the heritage of the influential publisher Alfred Töpelmann (1867-1954).

Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is consensus that the Christian tradition – especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God – played an important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.

The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early nineteenth-century Protestant theologian and philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). As the first major Christian thinker to theorize religion in a post-Enlightenment context and re-conceive the task of theology accordingly, Schleiermacher holds a seminal place in the histories of modern Christian thought and the modern academic study of religion alike. Whereas his “liberalism” and humanism have always made him a controversial figure among theological traditionalists, it is only recently that Schleiermacher’s understanding of religion has become the target of polemics from Religious Studies scholars keen to disassociate their discipline from its partial origins in liberal Protestantism. Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology documents an important meeting in the history of Schleiermacher studies at which leading scholars from Europe and North America gathered to probe the viability of key features of Schleiermacher’s theological and philosophical program in light of its contested place in the study of religion.

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Die Rede von der säkularen Moderne überzeugt nicht mehr. Die kulturelle und politische Präsenz der Religion ist ein öffentliches Thema, obwohl die Bindung der Menschen an die Kirchen weiter nachlässt. Wie dies zu beurteilen ist, bleibt aber höchst umstritten. Wo die Religion auftritt, da zeigt sich, dass es um Identität und Zugehörigkeit geht, um das Eigene und das Fremde, um den Sinn und was das Ganze überhaupt soll. Wilhelm Gräb beschreibt, wie die Theologie zur Klärung dieser Fragen beitragen kann. Nicht indem sie normative Ansprüche geltend macht, sondern indem sie Einblick in die Gründe für die ebenso ermutigende wie gefährliche Zugehörigkeit der Religion zum Menschsein verschafft. Der Autor zeigt den lebenspraktischen Gewinn auf, den die Religion aus einer theologischen Verständigung über sich zieht. Er stellt sich dabei in die Tradition liberaler protestantischer Religions- und Kulturtheologie. Sein Ziel ist es, das Potential frei zu legen, das diese Theologie für das Verstehen und die Bildung von Religion in sich trägt. Am Ende steht das Konzept einer praktischen Kulturtheologie, das auch der Kirche Impulse zu einem professionellen Umgang mit Religion aufzeigt.

Medienreligion ist ein Massenphänomen. Jeder Mensch in der modernen Mediengesellschaft partizipiert in der einen oder anderen Weise an diesem Prozess der Verständigung des Subjektes über sich selbst und die Welt. Medienreligion versteht sich so als Vollzug der subjektiv-persönlichen Anverwandlung medialer Sinnmuster. Was aber haben Kinofilme wie Der Herr der Ringe - Die Gefährten, Lola rennt und Fight Club mit Religion zu tun? Und wie werden die religiösen Sinngehalte von Kinofilmen individuell angeeignet? Die Studie geht diesen Fragen in der Kombination von Werk- und Rezeptionsanalysen populärer Kinofilme nach und legt damit die erste empirische Untersuchung zur These der Medienreligion vor.

Die religionstheologische Hermeneutik der Gegenwartskultur ist zu einem grundlegenden Forschungsfeld einer sich als Theorie der Religionspraxis verstehenden Praktischen Theologie geworden. Das Ästhetische ist als eine zentrale Dimension des Kulturellen deshalb neu in den Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Die Erforschung der Zusammenhänge von Ästhetik und Religion steht jedoch erst am Anfang. Mit dem Band kann ein teilweiser Überblick über den Stand der Diskussion zum Thema Identität und Differenz von ästhetischer und religiöser Erfahrung gegeben werden. Er bietet eine Zusammenschau unterschiedlicher Zugänge zu den Phänomenen bzw. differenter Theoriestrategien und weist Perspektiven für den interdisziplinären Diskurs auf, in denen die theoretischen Voraussetzungen und methodischen Maßgaben für die Verhältnisbestimmung von religiöser und ästhetischer Erfahrung zu klären sind.